In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

Wildlife populations that become small and isolated, often due to habitat loss, inevitably experience inbreeding which can lead to the loss of fitness and eventual extinction. One solution is to ...

An interdisciplinary study recently published in Nature Communications provides a clearer picture of life in Central Europe ...

Drug delivery researchers have vastly improved the potential of genetic therapies by overcoming the challenge of consistently getting genes and gene-editing tools where they need to be within cells.

University of Edinburgh spin-out BIOCAPTIVA secures £1.58m funding and launches its msX liquid biopsy technology in the US to improve cancer diagnostics and research.

The Tallahassee Democrat revisited Florida State University researchers to talk about seafood mislabeling happening in the ...

New England Biolabs has released the Monarch® Mag Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Extraction Kit, a bead-based method designed for scalable and reproducible isolation of low abundance cfDNA from plasma, serum, ...

DNA strands on tiny beads hide and reveal encrypted messages through programmable fluorescence patterns read by flow cytometry.

A high-performance blood-based DNA methylation test for early detection of gastrointestinal cancers. Liquid biopsy-informed precision oncology clinical trial to evaluate the utility of ctDNA genomic ...

What is that how can a tooth survive the years and bear any intelligible mark of the molecules on its side when bone and other soft tissue have long since decayed? In the case of ancient-DNA, teeth ...